Data centers in Yellowstone County, Montana
Yellowstone County has 1 data center on the record; it is proposed. Yellowstone County has a scorecard row with no rating yet. The latest decision on the record: Kassi Solberg collected more than 14,000 signatures toward a ballot initiative requiring voter approval for data centers in Yellowstone County, September 24, 2026.
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The data center in Yellowstone County
Each row is one site with its stage, its latest dated entry and what its sources disclose. A figure no source gives reads Not disclosed.
- Land
- Not disclosed
- Power
- Not disclosed
- Water
- Not disclosed
- Tenant
- Not disclosed
Where
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1 data center in Yellowstone County: proposed. A dashed edge means the exact site is not in the public record; every pin here marks a town or the county.
What Yellowstone County has decided
1 body, 7 decisions on the recordWhat the county and the cities in it have done about data centers: each body on its own row with its rating, open, case by case, restrictive or closed, never good or bad, and every vote, ordinance, moratorium or agreement behind its toggle, newest first, with its source.
Reported: the source's date; the item names no day of its own.
- Yellowstone Countycounty
Kassi Solberg collected more than 14,000 signatures toward a ballot initiative requiring voter approval for data centers in Yellowstone County, reported September 24, 2026.
7 acts on this row
- referendum
Kassi Solberg collected more than 14,000 signatures toward a ballot initiative requiring voter approval for data centers in Yellowstone County
- statement
Yellowstone County commissioners sent a letter asking local legislators to refine the Right to Compute Act
- moratorium
Yellowstone County residents and opponents of the Quantica data center project in Broadview requested interim zoning to pause development pending county review of data center impacts.
- ordinance
Yellowstone County commissioners agreed to discuss emergency interim zoning ordinance following public meeting on Tuesday, August 18, 2026
- litigation
A Billings judge ruled on a similar data center ballot initiative issue that the deadline for collecting signatures had passed under Montana Code Annotated 13-28-206
- litigation
On August 11, 2026, Yellowstone County District Court invalidated a citizen petition requiring data center voter approval on the basis of procedural deadline failure, leaving the Right to Compute Act's regulatory implications unaddressed.
- litigation
Yellowstone County Judge Ed Zink ruled that gatherers missed the deadline to collect signatures for the data center ballot measure
- referendum
What happened
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· Yellowstone County
Referendum: Kassi Solberg collected more than 14,000 signatures toward a ballot initiative requiring voter approval for data centers in Yellowstone County montanafreepress.org local outlet
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· Yellowstone County
Statement: Yellowstone County commissioners sent a letter asking local legislators to refine the Right to Compute Act montanafreepress.org local outlet
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· Yellowstone County
Moratorium: Yellowstone County residents and opponents of the Quantica data center project in Broadview requested interim zoning to pause development pending county review of data center impacts. montanafreepress.org local outlet
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· Yellowstone County
Ordinance: Yellowstone County commissioners agreed to discuss emergency interim zoning ordinance following public meeting on Tuesday, August 18, 2026 ktvq.com local outlet
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· Yellowstone County
Litigation: A Billings judge ruled on a similar data center ballot initiative issue that the deadline for collecting signatures had passed under Montana Code Annotated 13-28-206 kbzk.com local outlet
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· Yellowstone County
Litigation: On August 11, 2026, Yellowstone County District Court invalidated a citizen petition requiring data center voter approval on the basis of procedural deadline failure, leaving the Right to Compute Act's regulatory implications unaddressed. montanafreepress.org local outlet
Disclosed figures
nothing disclosed by 1 record
Power, water, jobs and tax
| Figure | Disclosed total | Disclosed | Not disclosed | Basis | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Power | Not disclosed | 0 | 1 | Not disclosed by any of the 1 record | |
| Water, stated per day | Not disclosed | 0 | 1 | Not disclosed by any of the 1 record | |
| Water, stated per year | Not disclosed | 0 | 1 | Not disclosed by any of the 1 record | |
| Permanent jobs | Not disclosed | 0 | 1 | Not disclosed by any of the 1 record | |
| Tax each year | Not disclosed | 0 | 1 | Not disclosed by any of the 1 record |
Summed only where a record disclosed the figure; a record with no figure adds nothing and is counted as not disclosed. Water is summed per day and per year separately, as the sources stated it, and never converted. A tax claim given as a range is summed at both ends.
By what the facilities are for
| Use | Records | Power | Water | Jobs | Tax each year | |
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| Not disclosed | 1 | Not disclosed | Not disclosed | Not disclosed | Not disclosed | Not disclosed: power, water, jobs, tax each year |
A record that lists several uses counts once under each. Each cell is the sum over the records with that use, disclosed rows only.
What the facilities are for
No source on file states what any of the 1 tracked facility in Yellowstone County is for.
How the facilities are cooled
No source on file states how any of the 1 tracked facility in Yellowstone County is cooled.
Cite this page
Data Center Record, "Data centers in Yellowstone County, Montana", https://datacenterrecord.org/states/mt/yellowstone-county, updated September 24, 2026.
Cite this page
Data Center Record, "Data center records in Yellowstone County, Montana", https://datacenterrecord.org/states/mt/yellowstone-county. Data: Data Center Record, datacenterrecord.org, CC BY 4.0.
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For researchers
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- us/mt/yellowstone-county
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- Census GEOID
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